May 14.

(6.) Any officer so promoted shall receive the minimum salary of
the class to which he is promoted, except in the case of an officer who
may be transferred or promoted from the Seventh Class to the Sixth
Class, or from the Non-clerical Division, who at the time was in
receipt of a higher salary than the minimum salary of the class to
which he has been transferred or promoted. Such officer shall
continue to receive such first-mentioned salary until he shall be
entitled to a further increment.

(7.) Officers shall be placed at the bottom of the class to which
they are promoted. Officers promoted in the same financial year to
any class shall retain the same relative positions as they had before
such transfer.

(8.) In any case in which an officer becomes entitled to promotion
without removal from the class in which he is situated, the Minister
may, in his discretion, grant to such officer on promotion increment to
the salary next beyond that to which he would first become entitled
without such promotion under these regulations.

47. An officer of the Eighth Class shall have been in receipt of the
    maximum salary of that class for one year before he shall be entitled
    to be promoted to the Seventh Class. Such promotion shall be subject
    to a report from the head of his office certifying that the officer's
    conduct is satisfactory in all respects, that he has passed the required
    examinations, and has earned promotion; and if the report is not
    satisfactory the promotion shall be deferred.

48. Officers in the Seventh or the Eighth Class who may pass the
    Senior Examination (excluding the Matriculation Examination) shall
    be granted a double increment: Provided that the conduct of such
    officer has been satisfactory, and he is otherwise favourably reported
    upon for promotion.

49. Officers in the Eighth Class passing a satisfactory examination in shorthand-writing at the rate of 100 words per minute, and typewriting at the rate of 40 words per minute, shall be granted six months' seniority.

50. Before being promoted out of the Eighth Class, officers shall
    pass one or more of the following examinations as indicated :—

For Postal officers : (1.) The sorting test, being the assortment of
five hundred letters, or articles resembling letters in shape and in the
mode of the addresses thereon inscribed, for their proper distribution
by means of the post throughout New Zealand. The assortment
shall be made in a maximum time of twenty minutes, and with a
maximum of mistakes of three per centum.

(2.) An examination in rules and regulations as contained in the
book of Rules and Regulations for the Guidance of Officers (General and
Postal), edition 1906 or any amendment thereof; in money-order,
postal-note, and Savings-Bank rules in the Post and Telegraph Guide
of the current issue; and in discipline.

For Telegraph officers : (1.) An examination in rules and regulations
as contained in the book of Rules and Regulations for the Guidance of
Officers (Telegraph Branch), edition 1904 or any amendment thereof,
and in the Post and Telegraph Guide of the current issue; in money-
order and Savings-Bank rules as applied to telegrams; in telegraph
accounts; and in discipline.

(2.) An examination in sending and receiving on the Morse telegraph
instrument at a minimum rate per minute of twenty-five words sent
and twenty-three words received, ten minutes each way, with a maxi-
mum of one per centum of mistakes.

(3.) A technical examination in the simpler uses of electricity as
applied to telegraphy, and in the use and management of telegraphic
apparatus.

51. Officers in the Seventh Class will be required to pass tests of
    efficiency before such officers may receive increments beyond
    (a) one hundred and sixty-five pounds, and (b) two hundred pounds
    per annum. The scope of such tests shall be as follows :—

(1.) Before receiving salary beyond one hundred and sixty-five
pounds per annum, an examination (to be called the First Examina-
tion) as under :—

For Postal officers : (1.) Examination in Postal Rules and Regula-
tions. Officers continuously employed five years prior to the examina-
tion in postal duties will be examined principally in postal work, but
will be required to show reasonable knowledge of the work of other